A publishing imprint for book coaches

The problem

The best part of the relationship ends at the finished manuscript

You spend months helping a client find their book. Then the client hands it, and the publishing fee, to someone they met last week.

Running a press yourself has always meant learning trim sizes, ISBNs, distributor accounts, royalty statements and tax forms. That is a second job, and not the one you love.

So most coaches refer clients out and lose touch with them just as the book reaches readers.

The answer

What changes with your own imprint

Your client's book is published under your press, with your name on the spine and the website.
Your agent proofreads and copyedits the finished manuscript (tracked changes the author accepts or rejects), designs the cover, formats the ebook and paperback and distributes them through your own IngramSpark and optional KDP accounts.
Publishing a finished manuscript is included in your plan, so the package price you set is yours. Your only per-book costs are the ISBN and, if you want one, a printed proof.
Clients who are still at the idea stage can build a draft from their own notes and recordings with BookBud or ConceptsOfABook, and you earn affiliate commission.
Royalty statements, W-9 and W-8BEN collection and year-end tax forms are prepared for you.

An example

A coach who publishes two clients a month at a $1,495 package, on the Starter plan, keeps roughly $2,700 a month after ISBNs, proofs and the plan fee. Use the calculator on the main page to try your own numbers.

A good fit

Coaches who already see several clients a year through to a finished manuscript.

Probably not for you

Coaches whose clients mostly want a big traditional publisher. An imprint is the alternative to that path, not a route into it.

Yours, not ours

A real publishing company you own

Your brand

Your press name, logo, colours and web address on everything authors see.

Your store accounts

Books go out through your own IngramSpark and optional KDP accounts, and store payments go to your bank.

Your ISBNs

Your press is the publisher of record on every book.

Your authors

The relationships, contracts and revenue are yours. Export everything at any time.

See plans and pricing · How the agent works

Questions

Frequently asked

No. It is simply an option you can now offer. Many clients would rather stay with the person who helped them write the book than start again with a stranger.

They will know they are working with your press. Your agent writes in your name, and every change it suggests to a manuscript is a tracked change the author approves. How you describe it is up to you.

Yes, when they are built from your client's own material, such as notes, interviews, recordings or drafts. We do not support books generated from a one-line prompt.

Apply to be a founding licensee

We're opening to ten publishers first, at $500 setup instead of $1,500 and with your monthly price locked. Tell us a little about you and Bo Bennett will be in touch personally. Applying doesn't commit you to anything.